Charles J. Jenkins

Charles Jones Jenkins (6 January 1805-14 June 1883) was Governor of Georgia from 14 December 1865 to 13 January 1868, succeeding James Johnson and preceding Thomas H. Ruger.

Biography
Charles Jones Jenkins was born in Beaufort, South Carolina on 6 January 1805, and he attended the University of Georgia at Atlanta at a young age. After graduating from Union College in New York in 1824, he became a lawyer, and he served as Attorney-General of Georgia from 1831 to 1834. As a member of the US Democratic Party, he supported the Compromise of 1850, and he was Daniel Webster's vice-presidential candidate in 1852. During the American Civil War, Governor Joseph E. Brown appointed him as a justice on the Supreme Court of Georgia, and he was the only candidate for Governor in 1865. In 1868, he left office after refusing to preside over a racially integrated state convention, and he died in 1883 after a failed 1872 run for the presidency.